St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-22

convention within. The hall in the
afternoon was about half-flled with
crowd of MISUNDERSTANDING and sad
eyed men, all of them firmly intent on
corking up fOIeyermore all the good
cheer, smiles and merriment of this
world we live in and RELOCATING all the
cOnviyial souls to cold, cherries. give
us-the-shakeS diet of water. nothing but
iced water. The glowing lights of the
party were present in full force; inclgd-
ing Prof. Hopkins. who called the
ing; j. p. Pinkham, chairman
of the state central committee. Rev. {.
II. Mead and brother, w. w. Satterlee.
who is the only cheer-inSpiring feature
to prohibition meeting, and who
really does try to infuse smile once in
while. The chief defects in the pro-
hlblti0n party were, according to Prof.
Hopkins, lack of funds and a need of
more eOmpactneSS in organization; but
a bigger defect than these is the vast
amount of flowing eloquence expended
on every little trivial matter brought
up. All they accomplished yesterday
afternoon; by any political organization
would have been done inside of all
hour. and as it was the shades of night
were gathering round ere the dry ora
tory was gotten through with; Prof.
Hopkins meanwhile posing as great
parliamentarian, speaking in the voice
of side Snowman: walk up ladies
and gentlemen, and see the show''-The
early part of the afternoon was solely
taken up with the extremely weariSoIne
reports of the different counties. When
Hennepin was reached, Brother Satter-
lee trotted out the usual old chestnut,
prohibition and high license and gave a
little dissertation on the matter, but it
was simply reiteratiOn of
the old plea for prohibition.
This was followed by the delegates
from Ramsey county introducing the
Rev. Father MahOn, who reported the
good work continuing, he himself being
greatly strengthened by the labor and
encouragement of Fathers Cahill and
James McGolrick. He had great hope
for the cause of temperance. and hoped
to see the day come when, dropping all
sectional affairs, he would see through
out the land monster meetings held for
the cause and in which Catholics and all
other religious bodies would work to-
gether for the right. At the conclusion
of the priests address-and he seems
most popular mantle Silver Lake
quartette sang in an excellent manners
typical song called The Cranks," that
was first-rate. This was succeeded by
some very d6sultOry conversation on
some pertinent questions propounded
by Rev. w. W. Satterlee as to when the
next state convention would be held and
where. The nth of June was chosen,
one member thinking it very appro-
pirate date because it was the anniyer-
Sary of the battle of Bunker Hill. The
unanimous voice of the conference NOM
mated Prof. A. A. Hopkins for chair
man of the national committee in place
of the late deeply lamented j. Z. Finch,
and that really was the most important
thing attended TO. A curious incident
was where a young man arose and spoke
a few words to the audience. The
chairman told him to speak louder
when he jumped into the passage way,
threw out his hands, struck an attitude,
and cried in loud voice: "My name is
Thompson: Thompson, sir: Thompson"
A curious thing about this young man
was that one leg of his pants was longer
than the other good deal. The effect
was ridiculous. and everybody smiled.
His object in arising was to inform the
meeting prohibition had ''struck lie in
the University" and that he was pro-
hibitionist. This was received with
great applause and amid loud manifesto
lions of delight he sat down.
To-day the state convention will be in
session from early morning till late in
the evening, and the work and its pro-
greSS will be discussed with especial
reference to lmpreSsing the idea of Min
nesota prohibitioniStS on the national
committee.